Ivor Salter
Also Known As: Ivor Charley Salter
Biography: Ivor Salter was an English character actor who appeared in numerous small, but often memorable roles on British television.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Taunton, Somerset, England, UK
Birthday: August 22, 1925
Deathday: June 21, 1991
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Dog Eat Dog!
Overview: Three thieves rip off a shipment of used money being sent back to the US. As they are escaping the robbery (after having taken a hostage), they wind up on an island in a hotel with an apparently crazed manager and a building full of demented residents.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-06-25
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House of Mortal Sin
Overview: Also known as 'The Confessional', another of Pete Walkers's critiques of institutional hypocrisy, in which a troubled young girl goes to confession at the local church. Unfortunately, the sexually frustrated priest she confesses to becomes obsessed with her. At first, the priest stalks the girl, but later it is revealed that he will stop at nothing, including blackmail and murder, just to get close to her.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-02-03
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Elementary, My Dear Watson
Overview: John Cleese stars as Sherlock Holmes in this Comedy Playhouse pilot episode from 1973.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-01-18
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House of Whipcord
Overview: Somewhere in the middle of the English countryside a former judge and a group of former prison warders, including his lover, run their own prison for young women who have not been held properly to account for their crimes. Here they mete out their own form of justice and ensure that the girls never return to their old ways.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-04-19
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Tiffany Jones
Overview: Light-hearted and occasionally unclothed adaptation of a British comic strip in the over-the-top, on-beyond-Bond spy fantasy vein. Based on the Daily Mail comic strip.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-08-16
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The Ghost of Monk's Island
Overview: Sailing too far from shore, the Robinson children are marooned on a deserted Island. Their fight for survival is hampered by mysterious events, and the even more mysterious 'Ghost of Monk's Island'.
Genres: Family Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-01-01
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Doctor Who: The Space Museum
Overview: On the planet Xeros, the TARDIS crew discover their own future selves frozen in time as exhibits in a galactic museum and must avert this potential future.
Genres: Science Fiction Drama Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-05-15
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Doctor Who: The Myth Makers
Overview: When the TARDIS arrives on the plains of Asia Minor not far from the besieged city of Troy, the Doctor is hailed by Achilles as the mighty god Zeus and taken to the Greek camp. He meets Agamemnon and Odysseus. Forced to admit he is a mere mortal — albeit a traveller in space and time — he is given two days to devise a scheme to capture Troy. Steven and Vicki, meanwhile, have been taken prisoner by the Trojans. Vicki, believed to possess supernatural powers, is given two days to banish the Greeks to prove she is not a spy.
Genres: Science Fiction Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-11-06
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The Heart Within
Overview: This is one of David Hemming's earliest performances in the cinema: the star actor was just 15 when he portrayed a teenager who determines to clear a black friend on the run who is accused of murder.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-07-01
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Doctor Who: Black Orchid
Overview: The TARDIS arrives in 1925 England where the Doctor ends up playing in a local cricket match due to a case of mistaken identity. The travellers accept an invitation to a masked fancy dress ball, but events take on a more sinister tone as murders are perpetrated at the country home of their host, Lord Charles Cranleigh.
Genres: Science Fiction Drama Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-03-02
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West 11
Overview: Joe Beckett, seasoned citizen of the bedsitter belt, aged about 22, is the renegade son of modest, respectable parents and, to use his own description, 'an emotional leper'. He decides that he needs a violent shock to shake him back into life, and as a result accepts a commission to carry out the murder of a total stranger for a man he meets in a coffee bar...
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-10-08
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Be My Guest
Overview: A couple inherit a hotel with no guests until their son's pop group turns things around.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-04-01
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The Man Who Finally Died
Overview: Joe Newman, a naturalised Briton, is telephoned by his German father, whom he believed long dead, at the same time as a funeral is taking place in Bavaria - with his father's name on the coffin. His investigation in Bavaria reveals startling facts and the obstruction he meets makes him suspect foul play.
Genres: Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-12-01
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